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Ryan Muldoon is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics department at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Science and Values at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. His primary
research investigates how we can turn the challenge of increasing
diversity into a resource to be tapped for our mutual benefit.
Specifically, he investigates how diversity can lead to more just
societies, to an increase in the amount and quality of scientific
production, and greater wealth. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~rmuldoon